Shiro Wat
Chickpea flour stew, smooth and deeply spiced.
Ingredients
- 1½ cups Chickpea flour
- 3 Onions
- 6 cloves Garlic
- 2 tbsp Berbere spice blend
- 2 Tomatoes
- 4 tbsp Spiced clarified butter
- 1 tbsp Ginger
- 2 tsp Salt
- 5 cups Water
Method
- Cook the onions dry — Cook the finely chopped onions in a dry pot for 20 minutes until collapsed.
- Add fat — Stir in the spiced butter, garlic and ginger.
- Bloom the berbere — Add the berbere and tomato and fry 5 minutes until darkened.
- Slake the flour — Whisk the chickpea flour into cold water first — adding it dry causes instant lumps.
- Simmer — Pour it in gradually and cook 25 minutes, stirring, until smooth and thick.
- Shiro is ready — Serve bubbling hot with injera.